06-11-2011, 04:00 AM
Mr Fixit Wrote:My main problem is I dont work in 'thou of an inch" like my Grandpa did, Im a metric boy [mostly]. Its my problem and Ill deal with it in my own way, maybe.
Norway is also metric, but we have calculators that help us go from inches to millimeters or centimeters as needed.
1" = 25.4mm
2.2" = 2.2 x 25.4 mm = 55.8mm (ie 5.5cm)
0.1 x1" = 0.1 x 25.4mm = 2.5mm
0.090 x 1" = 0.09 x 25.4mm = 2.2mm
And so on and so forth.
For rough calculations (just to get a ballpark idea of how big things are), 10 centimeters is about 4" - so something 40" (i.e 10 x 4") long is about 10 x 10 cm = 100 centimeters long, while something 120 centimeters long is 12 x 10cm equals about 12 x 4" = 48".
Smile,
Stein